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"When will the Left retract the Kentucky census worker case smear?" asks Michelle Malkin. She'll probably have to wait for the selection of a delegate to speak on the Left's behalf. For our part, we only questioned the theory that Sparkman was a chil...

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"I don't know what she stands for," McCarthy said when Gillibrand tried to show she would "evolve" with a statewide constituency. "Basically, throw up an issue, and she has changed her opinion on it."
But that's all water under the bridge, apparent...

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Maybe by scaling back his demand for over $600 million in cuts to school aid by half was the fatal sign of weakness that invited the counterattack, but the state senators who have been remarkably slow about trimming the budget united against Paterson...

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The United Homeless Organization -- the non-profit group which, since
1993, has been setting up tables on street corners throughout the city
and soliciting money with those ubiquitous plastic UHO water jugs -- is a fraud, according to Attorne...

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Who knows if James Perry has any chance to be elected Mayor of New Orleans? But we like his style. The executive director of the Greater New Orleans Fair Housing Action Center sued Ray Nagin for hiring expensive lawyers. And he has this ad going arou...

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performance they were going to sponsor. "Given his controversial American Music Awards performance," says a GMA spokesperson (referring, we assume, to the rather perfunctorily simulated bondage sex), "we were concerned about airing a similar concert...

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the London Blitz, has been restored and will be shown at the National Gallery. Then again, maybe its popularity is explained by the interest of anti-government types who will Photoshop it up for a Tea Party or something. Well, let's just accept the m...

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Sick of the legislature doing nothing about the budget during what were supposed to be special sessions, Governor Paterson is asking for special powers to make his own damn cuts. "Cut this deficit with me or I'll do it myself," he said in a video ad...

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has chosen not to game its system, but has placed an ad on the page to explain its policies on "Offensive Search Results." "We do not remove a page from our search results simply because its content is unpopular or because we receive complaints conce...

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This is very similar to Donovan's plan during the last holiday season to deter shoplifters by posting their pictures at a shopping mall. Apparently shame is a popular crime-fighting strategy on Staten Island, which may be why many of their most famou...

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They lived in an apartment across the street from an old movie house with used plastic slip-in letters on its marquee. Jerry and David got a ladder one fine night and, with a little creative mangling of the plastic, changed the name of the current fe...

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the Times explains up front that Hernandez has Asperger's Syndrome, which makes him prey to obsessive, "eccentric" behavior -- like many other teenagers, in other words, only clinical. He didn't ask adults for help, which struck us as admirable indep...

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Bruce Ratner has dodged another bullet. The eminent domain challenge made by landholders in the footprint of Ratner's Atlantic Yard boondoggle has been tossed by the Court of Appeals.
The business- and home-owners are being forced to accept hilari...

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A jury of seven women and five men will start deciding the guilt or innocence of ex-state senate leader Joe Bruno this morning. They're either going to find that he really was like that bully shaking down kids in the schoolyard with a guy named "Tiny...

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survey reveals a boom in data theft among workers on Wall Street and at Canary Wharf in London. A quarter of respondents professed a willingness to take data from their employers, though 85 percent of them know it's illegal. The survey suggests that ...

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Notre Dame quarterback Jimmy Clausen was reportedly sucker-punched by an "irate fan" over the weekend after yet another embarrassing loss (this one to Connecticut). One more black eye for Notre Dame football.
The fan probably should have punched co...

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Today the Post gives Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver an op-ed, "New York state must cut spending," in which the Speaker tells us (as is his wont) how hard the assembly is working, and that as "families throughout our state are making painful but nec...

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The U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission has recalled 1.2 million cribs. "The cribs' drop-side plastic hardware can break, deform, or parts can become missing," they say."In addition, the drop-side can be installed upside-down, which can result i...

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March 24, 1966, Vol. XI, No. 23
Koch Battles the Odds, Gets in Council Race
By Jack Newfield
Having vanquished the DeSapio machine in Greenwich Village, Edward Koch this week announced he will make a fight for public office. He seeks the Democrati...

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Dear Mexican: As a proud New Yorker, I gotta ask: What the FUCK is up with Mexican food in this city? Sure, we're used to getting owned by California and Texas and even Chicago when it comes to getting kick-ass, cheap, regional Mexican food. But I j...